We found very little correlation between turnover and profitability...
The typical American now consumes approximately three hamburgers and four orders of french fries every week.
The history of the twentieth century was dominated by the struggle against totalitarian systems of state power. The twenty-first will no doubt be marked by a struggle to curtail excessive corporate po...
The federal government has the legal authority to recall a defective toaster oven or stuffed animal—but still lacks the power to recall tons of contaminated, potentially lethal meat.
The drug use at Homestead was suspected after a fully armed Russian MiG-17 fighter plane, flown by a Cuban defector, landed there unchallenged, while Air Force One was parked on a nearby runway.
The BMEWS site at Thule had mistakenly identified the moon, slowly rising over Norway, as dozens of long-range missiles launched from Siberia.
The Air Force’s demand for self-contained, inertial guidance systems played a leading role in the miniaturization of computers and the development of integrated circuits, the building blocks of the mo...
Some of the most painful and debilitating injuries are the hardest to prove.
Sergeant Paul Ramoneda, a twenty-eight-year-old baker with the Ninth Food Service Squadron, was one of the first to reach the bomber.
McMahon predicted that total power in the hands of total evil will equal destruction. The
In 1978, the typical teenage boy in the United States drank about seven ounces of soda every day; today he drinks nearly three times that amount, deriving 9 percent of his daily caloric intake from so...
Future historians, I hope, will consider the American fast food industry a relic of the twentieth century — a set of attitudes, systems, andbeliefs that emerged from postwar southern California, that...
Did somebody say McUnion? [...] Not if they want to keep their McJob.
Dangerous systems usually required standardized procedures and some form of centralized control to prevent mistakes. That sort of management was likely to work well during routine operations. But duri...
Beslenme biçimi, bir ulus hakkında sanatı veya edebiyatından daha çok bilgi verebilir. ABD'de herhangi bir günde yetişkin nüfusun yaklaşık dörtte biri bir fast food restoranına gidiyor. Fast food sekt...
What we eat has changed more in the last forty years than in the previous forty thousand.
Secrecy is essential to the command and control of nuclear weapons. Their technology is the opposite of open-source software. The latest warhead designs can’t be freely shared on the Internet, improve...
Perimeter greatly reduced the pressure to launch on warning at the first sign of an American attack. It gave Soviet leaders more time to investigate the possibility of a false alarm, confident that a...
One historian has described the federal government’s 1950s highway-building binge as a case study in interstate socialism—
Nuclear weapons may well have made deliberate war less likely, Sagan now thought, but the complex and tightly coupled nuclear arsenal we have constructed has simultaneously made accidental war more li...